Are socio-economic inequalities related to cardiovascular disease risk? A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between socio-economic inequalities and fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events.

Methods

A systematic review of recently published cohort studies and a meta-analysis of relative risk (RR) of low compared with high socio-economic status (SES) in relation to cardiovascular incidence and mortality was conducted. Supplementary evaluations were conducted considering different proxies of SES in relation to different types of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Results

We identified 17 studies including approximately 26.5 million of participants with more than 900,000 CVD events. We estimated a 50% increased CVD risk for low SES with respect to high SES (RR = 1.49 [95% confidence interval: 1.26, 1.78]). For sex

SUBMITTER: Ololade JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11603974 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature